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Analysis: S. Africa still faces enormous challenge
ANALYSIS
By BARRY RENFREW
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP)
— Once the euphoria over Nelson Mande
la’s release dies down, South Africa will still
face the enormous challenge of ending its
centuries-old racial divisions and building a
new nation.
Black and white leaders say a major era
in the country’s history is coming to an end
with the impending demise of white-mi
nority rule. But the future is foreboding,
they warn, with many obstacles and the
threat of conflict ahead.
South Africans must peacefully solve the
country’s problems and find a way to live
together in equality after 40 years of apart
heid, leaders say. But the white government
and its opponents appear to be far apart,
with whites insisting on a special role in the
future despite black objections.
“Now there can be no going back,” the
Sunday Times said in an editorial reflecting
the views of a growing number of South Af
ricans. “Irreversibly, South Africa has been
placed on the path to its new future.”
While the search for peace is likely to be
long and difficult, changes that would have
been unthinkable even a year or two ago
are already taking place.
President F.W. de Klerk’s decision to free
Mandela and end bans on black opposition
groups after years of armed conflict
stunned many whites and blacks. He
pledged to find “a new dispensation” that
would end the exclusion of the country’s 28
million blacks from political power.
De Klerk says he opposes black majority
rule and that a new constitution must in
clude protection for “group rights” to en
sure whites are not swamped in a future
democratic state. The government says it
also will retain, for now, such apartheid leg
islation as laws segregating residential dis
tricts.
While the government declines to outline
its position in talks on a future constitution,
governing National Party officials say they
favor splitting the country into a series of
racially based, semi-independent cantons or
counties.
The cantons would be united under a
federation that would oversee economic co
operation and other national issues.
Critics reject such plans as “apartheid in
another guise,” and the ANC and other op
position groups say they will accept nothing
less than total democracy.
Mandela has indicated he will not bend
on his insistence on equal rights. “We must
work toward a common destiny, and that
can only be achieved through a non-racial
society and not one in which whites con
tinue to demand special political treat
ment,” Mandela was quoted as saying by the
South African Press Association.
The 5 million whites in South Africa con
trol the economy, and there is a huge gulf
between the prosperity of most whites and
the bleak poverty of the great majority of
blacks.
But while de Klerk and Mandela attempt
to find a peaceful solution, there are many
whites and blacks who will oppose any com
promise and insist on total power for their
side alone.
Many whites are unhappy about the steps
de Klerk has taken, and the opposition
Conservative Party is attempting to forci
election to oust the government. Politu
observers say de Klerk’s white support
uncertain and he has to move quickly at,
decisively.
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